Nature reserve · Montana

State Trust

State Trust from directly overhead

State Trust is a nature reserve in Montana, at a modelled elevation of 1,207 m. Wild Horse Butte stands 1,473 m to the west-northwest, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Indian Butte, a peak 1.1 miles away. 41 named places lie within 25 miles, 11 of them named summits.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: Montana State Trust Lands

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates46.26817, -109.43200

Around it

41 named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves21

State Trust: 6.1 mi
State Trust: 7.3 mi
State Trust: 7.3 mi
State Trust: 10.6 mi
State Trust: 10.7 mi

Peaks11

Indian Butte: 1.1 mi
Chinamans Hat: 5.9 mi
O'Brien Hill: 6.7 mi
Locomotive Butte: 10.8 mi
Mount Sinai: 11.3 mi

Parks4

Ryegate City Park: 8.6 mi
MDT Harlowton Rest Area: 21.6 mi
Fischer Park: 22.4 mi
Lavina City Park: 23.7 mi

Historic sites2

Chief Joseph: 9.0 mi
E57B - the Last Electric Locomotive: 22.4 mi

Springs1

Big Spring: 19.6 mi

Museums1

Milwaukee Depot Museum: 22.1 mi

Attractions1

Wheatland County Fairgrounds/Rodeo Arena: 22.5 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of State Trust. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Wild Horse Butte	WNW 290°	1,473 m	15.7 mi
O'Brien Hill	S 182°	1,415 m	6.7 mi
Knob Hill	S 185°	1,383 m	18.3 mi
Locomotive Butte	SSE 152°	1,368 m	10.8 mi
Haystack Butte	NNW 336°	1,349 m	13.4 mi
Mount Sinai	SE 125°	1,336 m	11.3 mi
Jones Hill	S 173°	1,333 m	24.4 mi
Indian Butte	NNE 28°	1,311 m	1.1 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:22	18:51	19:30
June solstice	05:27	20:27	21:14
September equinox	07:05	18:38	19:17
December solstice	07:59	15:44	16:35

Local time (America/Denver).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Avg °F	26	28	37	45	53	62	70	68	59	47	34	26

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Ryegate, 9 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/185214825

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